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I know one historical fact, and it's true. Any country that achieves power begins to conquer other countries and interfere in their affairs. That's a fact. But I'm not talking about conquest, but about the destruction of culture, language, traditions, and faith. (The Union existed, there was peace between Orthodoxy and Catholicism), but after the partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the territory of Belarus ended up in Russia, which meant Russification and other things began. But let's not touch on that; ANY country, having the opportunity and strength, will pursue such a policy. I just can't stand it when people criticize America, while the heroic Suvorov sent hundreds of thousands of victims on bloody campaigns, and that's okay. Did the Caucasus come to peace peacefully? The mountaineers were exterminated, and they were fighting for their families and their homeland. Let's not, Alexey, you're an educated person and you understand historical processes.
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Regarding the Poles. They don't speak Belarusian. :) And we don't have their territories. And they only asked for help once; in all other cases, they were the aggressors. Remember the conditions under which the Grand Duchy of Lithuania entered into an alliance with Poland? Either they attack, or they form an alliance. A good choice. :)
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...Along with them, the opportunity for publication arose (although to a much lesser extent due to financial capabilities), and real historians, but most of these publications are devoted to one or another period in the history of the USSR, to one or another Republic or region of the former USSR. There is still no systematic analysis of terror, and this study is the first attempt.
When collecting material, all types of terror were recorded: murders, imprisonment in prisons and camps, violations of civil and political rights, destruction of cultural values, censorship. Facts of deliberate stupefaction of the population were also recorded, for example, the publication in 1964 by the "Prosveshchenie" publishing house (!) of a book by some Ermakov "Atheistic Education in Teaching Arithmetic." Information was collected on facts of atrocities, terrorist decrees and resolutions, in general, everything that was directed against a person in one way or another...
There's a whole book with purely SCIENTIFIC FACTS, Alexey, and the details are shocking. Communism is not the Matrix; it's a reality.